AISHA ABUBAKAR
A 42-year old Indian lady, Neetu Neetu and an Angolan businessman, Mbala Dajou Abuba, have been convicted and sentenced to five years each for smuggling hard drugs worth millions of Naira into Nigeria through the Aminu Kano International Airport .
P.M.EXPRESS reports that while the Federal High Court in Kano presided by Justice Simon Amobeda found Neetu guilty for the offence and sentenced her accordingly, the same Federal High Court presided by another judge, Justice Mohammed Yunusa, sentenced Mbala Dajou Abuba accordingly having found him guilty as well.
The convicted Neetu was sentenced to five years imprisonment for importing 72 parcels of heroin factory sealed in wafer wraps and packaged as chocolates worth millions of Naira smuggled into Nigeria through the Aminu Kano International Airport
The drug weighing 11 kilograms was imported into Nigeria through the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) Kano before she was apprehended with the drugs.
The Class A drug consignment was recovered from Neetu’s luggage after a thorough search, following processed credible intelligence, during an inward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR1431 from Bangkok, Thailand via Vietnam and Doha at the arrival hall of the Kano airport on Friday 14th March 2025.
She was subsequently arraigned in charge number FHC/KN/CR/65/2025 before Justice Amobeda, who eventually sentenced her to 10 years on two counts with an option of N2million fine.
In the same vein, the 42-year-old Angolan businessman Mbala Dajou Abuba was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison by Justice Mohammed Yunusa of a Federal High Court in Kano following his arrest and arraignment by NDLEA for ingesting 120 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.829 kilograms.
Abuba, who is from the Zaire province in Angola, was arrested on Tuesday 25th February 2025 at the screening point of the Kano airport while trying to board Egypt Air flight MS 880 to Istanbul, Turkey via Cairo.
Equally, a Federal High Court in Enugu has convicted another drug trafficker, Eze Christian Ikenna, on two counts of unlawful trafficking and possession of 11.20 kilograms of cocaine, brought against him by the NDLEA in charge number FHC/EN/CS/9/2023.
He was arrested on January 20, 2023 by NDLEA operatives at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, upon arrival from Brazil via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with 11.20 kilograms of cocaine concealed in herbal tea sachets.
He was subsequently arraigned before Justice M. G. Umar of the Federal High Court, Enugu, who eventually sentenced him to three years imprisonment on each count, totalling six years, while the sentence will run concurrently, effective from May 20, 2023.